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Soon — Put a Tigerlily in Your Tank
Soybeans and corn may become hot new fuel sources if high fuel prices and low crop prices continue. Bio-fuels, such as corn-based ethanol and soybean oil, burn more cleanly than […]
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States Get the Drift
The U.S. Supreme Court today let stand federal rules intended to reduce the amount of smog drifting across state borders from smokestacks in the Midwest and South to the Northeast. […]
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Commitment Ceremony
After a weekend-long meeting in Trieste, Italy, environmental ministers from Russia and the world’s top seven industrialized countries pledged yesterday that they would continue to work together to fight global […]
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Getting Left Behind
Ralph Nader is working with the Green Party to run as many as 80 candidates for Congress in 2002, twice the number that ran in 2000. He said the Green […]
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G-8 Is Enough
All eyes are on the U.S. as environmental ministers from the Group of Eight, the major industrialized countries plus Russia, begin a weekend meeting today in Trieste, Italy, to discuss […]
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A Starlink Is Corn
U.S. Agriculture Department officials ordered seed dealers yesterday to determine how much of the U.S. corn seed supply contains Starlink, the genetically engineered corn variety that led to huge recalls […]
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Pretty Belize With Sugar on Top
Environmentalists are mounting an international campaign against the proposed Chalillo dam on the Macal River in Belize, fearful that critical jungle habitat for tapirs, jaguars, and scarlet macaws could be […]
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Share and Share Dislike
Environmental and human rights groups are accusing the oil giant BP of playing dirty and preparing to squash debate on shareholder resolutions at its annual meeting next month. With the […]
